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Turku Manifesto in Polish
The Manifesto of the Turku School has been published in Polish as Manifest Szkoły Turku! The translator Oskar Mieczkowski was my host at Copernicon in Torun where I was the Guest of Honor last year. If...
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Iron Sky grudgingly featured at the Midnight Sun Film Festival
I’m in Sodankylä at the Midnight Sun Film Festival, the only place where the Finnish cultural elite can be seen wearing rubber boots and rain coats. The programme (curated by Peter von Bagh) contains...
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Article 6
I’m designing an adventure for the Lamentations of the Flame Princess roleplaying game, and need funding! The author of the game is a Finnish-based American, James D. Raggi IV, and he has about a dozen...
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Crowdfunding a roleplaying game for kids
I’m making an entry-level tabletop roleplaying game for kids. I started playing the D&D Red Box when I was 9, and so did pretty much everyone else in my generation. There hasn’t really been...
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I propose a Baltic Union in a German newspaper
I was interviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung about the Euro Crisis. They chose one writer from each Euro country to comment on the matter. Here’s my part as a PDF. (The three other parts of the...
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Musings on genre
Earlier, whenever I’d hear a techno song or a hiphop song, my initial thoughts used to be along the lines: “But these all sound exactly the same.” Many otherwise sensible people have the same reaction...
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Thank you Steam!
I installed Steam on my MacBook a few weeks ago to try a game called FTL that everyone seemed to recommend. In case you don’t know, Steam is a digital game distribution platform by Valve, the creators...
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Interviewed in a Croatian blog
I was interviewed in the blog Diary of a Croatian Larper. Read the article here. An even bigger honor was bestowed upon me a few weeks ago. I read on the same site an interview of the American “Larp...
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Blockistan the Duplo blog
My 2,5-year old son and I have a Duplo blog called Blockistan. It’s proven a fun way of being together, even if he hasn’t yet fully grasped the social media aspect… I just updated the blog with new fun...
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Fastaval, Mark Rein-Hagen, Bona the Robot!
I’m going to spend Easter at the legendary Danish gaming convention Fastaval. (This is my first time, so forgive me, if I’m off on some details.) Unelma keltaisesta kuninkaasta. Fastaval is not your...
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